rentiers
- plural of rentier.
Example Sentences
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The hosts, Sydney and Violet Schiff, British rentiers and patrons of the arts, pulled off a coup in a salon at the Hotel Majestic: They brought together five of the greatest artists of the era.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
And if you can maintain constant revenues at a lower cost basis, that means even more profits for the rentiers.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2018
Today, the relationship has been reversed: the rentiers and inheritors style themselves entre preneurs.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2016
“The super-rich today are not rentiers living off their accumulated wealth, as was frequently true in early part of the last century,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
Directly the phase of enormous war loans ends, the new class of rentiers holding the various great new national loans will find themselves drawing this collectively vast income and anxious to invest it.
From What is Coming? by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
